Newsweek’s Daniel Gross explains the Consumer Price Index (here’s the official BLS site) in a very simple video. I could do without the goofy sound effects, but it’s a good, 2 minute explanation of how the government tracks inflation.
Per David Simon’s Berkeley talk, though, the video doesn’t go into why this matters. Perhaps they’ll cover that in the next installment of the Economics 101 series.
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I really hate these new fangled terms and isms. But i do know people this describes. Can You Be a Vegetarian and Still Eat Meat?
What do you think? Can people still call themselves *vegetarian* if they eat meat?
May 13th, 2004 at 11:21 am
Yeah, I can’t find it now, but I also read a story about how vegitarians started eating some meat again. I just don’t get that at all. I never understood people called themselves vegitarians yet at fish (or chicken). I guess those animals don’t count???
May 13th, 2004 at 11:49 am
yep. shared a suite with a girl once who said she was vegetarian. Then next thing we see is her eating a Big Mac. And *that* was beef!
May 14th, 2004 at 12:08 am
Is it kind of like a virgin that occasionally has sex?
June 19th, 2004 at 3:31 pm
flexitarians, they’re called, its not a vegetarian.
June 24th, 2004 at 1:21 pm
Um, that’s actually a little thing I like to call an omnivore…What I think would be really cool is if people would stop pretending to be vegetarians when they’re not. Vegetarian=No Meat. There is nothing special about a “Flexitarian” if they sometimes eat meat and sometimes don’t. That’s just a nirmal diet.
Sorry for the rant, I’ve just been bothered by this a lot lately.